The Wordpress developers sure aren't wasting any time. With the release candidate going live just three days ago, Wordpress 2.7 is being pushed out to the public in just a few hours. For those in the U.S. on the east coast, the scheduled release is 8pm. I usually play these types of things safe, and try not to update until 2.7.1 has been released. That's just to make sure most of the major bugs have been worked out.
I'm kinda excited about this release of Wordpress. It's going to be a major overhaul on the design and functionality of the Wordpress Dashboard. Being a designer, I always need things to look nice. (For example, I'm already planning on styles to apply to my new laptop once it arrives. Custom icons and whatnot.) I just hope it works just as good as previous versions of the CMS.
As promised, here is the advance notice that WordPress 2.7 is coming to WordPress.com, and will go live on Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 8pm Eastern Time. That’s 5pm Thursday in California, 1am Friday in London (UTC), 8am Friday in Jakarta, noon on Friday in Sydney…find your time here. Some people like to learn how to use new things by jumping right in and exploring, while others like to read the manual first to get the lay of the land. This post is a written version of the 2.7 interface tour/feature review I have been doing at WordCamps, and will tell you what’s new in the administration interface of WordPress 2.7. There are a lot of new features, so fair warning: this post is pretty long. If you’re more of the jump-in-and-play kind of person, you can skip this post for now, but you might want to remember it’s here just in case you get confused when 2.7 arrives at WordPress.com in two days.
So what are you guys gonna do? Are you looking forward to this release? Are you going to download it as soon as its public, or are you gonna leave it be and let other Wordpress users be your guinnea pigs and test it out for you? Also, a pre-emptive "shut up" to Dan. 
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I'm gonna let other people test it before I try out dat shit. : )